Car-needle-beam attachment.



No. 884,32'7. PATENTED APR. '7, 1908. C. P. FREDE. CARNEEDLE BEAM ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED DEO. 30, 1907.

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vspectivel'y, on one side of the needle-beam a, are formed preferably, two saced apart u UNTED STATE PATENT CHARLES F. FREDII, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOD RI, ASSIGNOR TO CAST STEEL'NEEDLE BEAM COM- PANY, OF ST. LOUlS, MSSOURI, A CORPORATION.

JAR-NEEDLE-BEAll ATTACHIENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patentes April 7, ieee.

Be it known ti' .t' I, CHARLES F. FREDE, a citizen oi the Umted States, residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Car-Needle-Beam Attachment, of which the4 following is a specification.

My invention relates toan attachment (or attachments) for a car needle-beam, and has for its object to enable the needle-beams of a car to'be braced to each other and' carry the gas or water tank, battery-box, or other receptacle usually. carried by the car sills.

It consists in features of novelty as hereinafter'described and claimed, reference being had to the accom anying drawing forming part of this speci cation, whereon,

Figure 1, is a side elevation of a preferably, metallic car needle-beam having vmy attachment; Fig. 2, a top plan view of the needlebeam and its attachment, showing the gas or water tank and battery-box carried thereby in dotted lines, and Fig. 3, a vertical transverse section to enlarged scale through lthe Like letters and numerals of reference dea represents the needle-beam, and the longitudinal sills of the car underframe, to the underside of which the needle-beam a is fixed in the usual Well-known manner. The needle-beam a, in the present case, is preferintegral throughout, and having the queenposts a/ for the truss-rods integral therewithv on its underside. Or the needle-beam may be made of commercial rolled iron or pressed metal, of'any suitable shape, and the queenposts for the truss-rods either integral therewith or fixed thereto as desired.

Extending between and uniting the top and bottom flanges or members 1 and 1 reright webs or brackets c whic are of suitab e wldth and thickness and formed transversely therethrough respectively, with suitably arranged holes 2 for the passag of bolts (or rivets) 3.

To each web or bracket c against its outer face is fixed by the bolts 3, one endo an angle, tee, channel, or other suitably shaped bar or member 4 which extends'therefrom beneath, and is adapted tosupport the battery-box (l, (indicated by dotted lines), the

other end of the member 4 being preferably secured in like manner to the succeeding' needle-beam of lthe car, whereby the needlebeams are firmly braced to each other.

The' bottom flange or member 1l at the other side of the needle-beam a is preferably,

`formed with one or more extended portions the needle-beam may be used for thenpurpose Or in lieu ot the upright webs or y set forth according to the material, shape,

and construction of the needle-beam.

What l claim as my invention and to secure by Letters ljatent is: Y' In a car needle-beam composed of cast metal and having a queen-post integral therewith, the combination of a bracket integral with the said beam, a member extending between the said bracket and a corresponding bracket on the succeeding needle-beam, and

desire adapted to carry a receptacle, and means for fixing the said ,member to the said brackets, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof l have' signed my name -to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES F. EREDE. Witnesses H. O. BELLviLL-E, C. T. Wiesmann. 

